When Alex Kmett first became interested in learning his ancestral language of Ojibwe as a teenager, he didn't have the resources available now. Twenty years later, Ojibwe language ...

RED LAKE, MINN. – Fourth-grader Jaxon Prentice, sitting on a couch in the radio station studio, hides his smile behind a pillow on his lap when he hears his voice first hit the airwaves. “You’re ...

Faculty, students and the Department of American Indian Studies have recently launched a new online dictionary of the Ojibwe language. The Ojibwe People’s Dictionary is an online search engine of more ...

CLOQUET, Minn. — Persia Erdrich’s son had just turned 2 years old when he spoke his first sentence in Ojibwe. The pair were visiting the Minnesota Zoo as part of a group of babies, toddlers, parents ...

Teacher Diana Lawrey's high school Ojibwe language classes were a little nervous to visit a Lowell Elementary kindergarten classroom on May 25. The high schoolers were afraid of "being shown up" by ...

The importance of a Native Nation’s language stands paramount to many Native Americans — and this year, programs have been created in schools across the northland to support Ojibwe language learning.

DASSEL — Each and every one of us is connected to our family past and future through an unbroken chain, and our actions have consequences that reverberate up and down that chain for generations to ...

One thing you won’t find at the annual Language Camp at the Kiwenz Campground in Sawyer is a strict schedule. In fact, a request for precise Ojibwe camp event times was met with smiles from organizers ...

BEMIDJI, Minn. -- In 2005, two volunteers set out on a mission to reconstruct a language native to the Bemidji area that had slowly deteriorated throughout the centuries. Nearly 10 years later, ...